What is it with people?
Okay - this entry is a total 'need to vent to feel better' blog but if anyone has any insight, please share.
As anyone reading our blog knows, we live on the top floors of a 4-story (5 to the US) building. This building has no lift and my daily workout is carrying my son, Logan, the stroller, and whatever is in my backpack up 8 flights of stairs.
Today, we enter the building and there are two Czech women getting their mail and in conversation as they make their way to the stairs. Alex is right behind them and I tell her to hold back so we can have some space between us before starting the hike up.
I wait until they are almost up to the first landing and start my ascent. They stop and look at me lugging about 30 lbs or more up the stairs before continuing...now at a more leisurely pace. Perhaps they think I live on this floor so it would not matter if they are now about the same speed as your average snail.
However, we then turn the corner and start out way up the next flight. They are not at the next landing before they both come to a dead halt, blocking any access to move further.
Apparently, they needed to stop all movements to fish the keys they just had a moment ago out of their over-sized luggage-like purses. With keys in hand, they take two more steps onto the landing and stop once again.
I growl a "Pardon" and make my way by them in the smallest amount of space they have provided and I found myself thinking I would love it if the stroller knocked into them.
We continue up the last two flights of stairs and unlock our door in time to hear them say good bye to one another. One woman lived there on the second floor, and a few moments later we could hear the other woman opening up a door on our floor!
So I ask you, what is wrong with these (and all the others out there just like them) people? Are they blind? Stupid? Just plain rude? What is it that makes people everywhere stop in the most inconvenient places imaginable and what makes them then think they are so superior that there cannot possibly be anyone else on the planet around them that may also need that exact same space, at the exact same time?!?!?!
As anyone reading our blog knows, we live on the top floors of a 4-story (5 to the US) building. This building has no lift and my daily workout is carrying my son, Logan, the stroller, and whatever is in my backpack up 8 flights of stairs.
Today, we enter the building and there are two Czech women getting their mail and in conversation as they make their way to the stairs. Alex is right behind them and I tell her to hold back so we can have some space between us before starting the hike up.
I wait until they are almost up to the first landing and start my ascent. They stop and look at me lugging about 30 lbs or more up the stairs before continuing...now at a more leisurely pace. Perhaps they think I live on this floor so it would not matter if they are now about the same speed as your average snail.
However, we then turn the corner and start out way up the next flight. They are not at the next landing before they both come to a dead halt, blocking any access to move further.
Apparently, they needed to stop all movements to fish the keys they just had a moment ago out of their over-sized luggage-like purses. With keys in hand, they take two more steps onto the landing and stop once again.
I growl a "Pardon" and make my way by them in the smallest amount of space they have provided and I found myself thinking I would love it if the stroller knocked into them.
We continue up the last two flights of stairs and unlock our door in time to hear them say good bye to one another. One woman lived there on the second floor, and a few moments later we could hear the other woman opening up a door on our floor!
So I ask you, what is wrong with these (and all the others out there just like them) people? Are they blind? Stupid? Just plain rude? What is it that makes people everywhere stop in the most inconvenient places imaginable and what makes them then think they are so superior that there cannot possibly be anyone else on the planet around them that may also need that exact same space, at the exact same time?!?!?!
posted by Pam at
11:27 AM
2 Comments:
In the spirit of venting, I have two favorites in this same arena:
1) People (usually tourists so you can give them a bit more of a break) who stop at the top of those HUGE metro escalators to figure out where they want to go next. They usually have massive suitcases in tow, causing the lemmings on the escalator behind them to dive around them.
2) People (not always tourists this time) who stop dead in their tracks when walking among the hordes of tourists on Wenceslas Square, causing me to dodge and weave around them.
In the words of Stephanie Tanner on Full House, "How rude!"
I miss your blog posts Ben and Pam! Hope you are enjoying your summer and will be back posting real soon...
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